Wednesday, May 11, 2016
I grew up in Catskill, NY, two doors down from the Candrillis. Vi & Sal were good friends of my parents, Phyllis & Earl Libman. I am Pan Libman (now Ruzzi) & have a sister, Bo, who is 6 years younger than me. I played with Joe & Joetta & we were often invited to the Candrilli household for a delicious Italian dinner of spaghetti & meatballs, deftly made by Vi, of course! Since my mother was from Wales & you know how boring English cooking is, she wasn't the best cook. But Vi, how we loved to go there & eat HER cooking! I was very interested to see that Joseph was a draftsman at GE--my father was an Engineer & also worked at GE in Schenectady--of course he was older even than Vi & Sal, but I imagine if he were alive to today he would be very pleased that Joe followed in his footsteps. I am so happy to see that Joe named one of his daughters after his mother! Those were happy days, growing up on Broad Street in a nice area of a nice town during a wonderful decade! PS My husband, Pep Ruzzi, read this & asked me to add that he remembered Joe from high school band & very much admired his saxaphone playing!
